Roger Taylor has announced a new album, The Outsider Tour Live, for release on Sept. 30. As its title suggests, the 22-song LP is a collection of tracks recorded live from the Queen drummer’s most recent tour, which supported the release of his 2021 solo album, The Outsider. The concerts, which took place in the U.K. last October, were Taylor’s first […]
Wolfgang Van Halen delighted and moved viewers last weekend when he blazed through effortless covers of Van Halen‘s “On Fire” and “Hot for Teacher” during the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium. Unsurprisingly, the performance also set off a fresh wave of internet commentators clamoring for Wolfgang to take part in a Van Halen reunion, […]
Roxy Music launched their 50th-anniversary tour Wednesday night in Toronto. After an opening performance by St. Vincent, Roxy Music fittingly began their set with “Re-make/Re-model,” the lead-off track from their 1972 self-titled debut album. Songs from nearly every Roxy Music album made it into the set list (except 1973’s Stranded). To finish the night, the band performed a cover of John Lennon‘s “Jealous Guy.” […]
Alice Cooper kicked off his fall U.S. tour on Wednesday at the Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem, Pa., marking his first show with guitarist Kane Roberts since 1988. You can watch video from the performance and see the full set list below. The 23-song set featured three tracks from Roberts’ first stint with the shock-rock […]
R.E.M.‘s second album, 1984’s Reckoning, carried a curious phrase on the LP’s spine: “File Under Water.” It was a designation, an in-joke or even an alternate title that referenced the running theme of water in the album’s lyrics, from “Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean” to “These rivers of suggestion are driving me away.” When R.E.M. released […]
Billy Joel was about halfway through his eighth studio album, The Nylon Curtain, and sensing the creative strain. He turned that feeling into the album’s lead single. “The pressure I was writing about in this song wasn’t necessarily music business pressure. It was writing pressure,” Joel told MTV’s Night School in 1982. “I said, ‘I […]
The Cult has released a new song titled “A Cut Inside” and revealed the full track listing for their new album Under the Midnight Sun, which arrives on Oct. 7. You can listen to the new song and see the full track listing below. “A Cut Inside” is the second song released from Under the Midnight […]
Not long ago, producer Giles Martin wasn’t sure four-track-era Beatles albums like Revolver could be properly remixed. The tech, he said then, wasn’t there yet. “That’s a good example of, ‘How do we do that?’” Martin told Rolling Stone in 2021. “How do I make sure that John [Lennon] or Paul [McCartney]’s vocal isn’t just in […]
“I’ve tried to make something indescribable,” Billy Corgan told MTV in 1998, previewing the retooled sound of Smashing Pumpkins‘ polarizing fourth LP, Adore. A noble mission — but also a difficult one: The album’s folky reveries and cushy electronics didn’t fit the Pumpkins mold of the previous seven years, leaving behind the proggy guitar solos, virtuoso drumming and […]
The Beatles‘ long-awaited Revolver box set will be released on Oct. 28. The super deluxe edition of the reissue (five-CD/four-LP) includes a new mix of the album by producer Giles Martin engineer Sam Okell, sourced from the album’s original four-track master tapes. The new audio was developed with the assistance of the sound team at Peter Jackson’s […]